Mark Heckman has taught classes in creating web pages to hundreds of genealogists at genealogical conferences and via a previous JewishGen email course. Mark has lectured on computer applications for genealogy at genealogy conferences in New York, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, and Jerusalem and has given talks on Internet genealogical resources, Holocaust genealogical research, and other topics for various Jewish genealogical societies. He has a MA degree in History and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California, is the immediate past president of the JGS of Sacramento, and is on the Gesher Galicia SIG steering committee.